XCAT_2.9.3_Release_Notes

xCAT 2.9.3 is ONLY released for AIX

New Functions and Changes in Behavior

• New Operating System Support

  • AIX 7.2.0, AIX 7.1.4.1

    Diskfull Install

    Verified updatenode command

    Verified syncfile mechanism

• New Features

  • Support the new format 'file -> (noderange for permitted nodes) file' in synclist file for file syncing. With this feature you can specify which nodes this entry applies for.

Test Environment

###xCAT core packages tar ball:

• core-aix-2.9.3.tar.gz

###xCAT dependency package verified with this xCAT release:

• dep-aix-2.9.3.tar.gz

The following xCAT dependency packages were built against AIX 7.2

• perl-DBD-SQLite ver 1.48
• perl-DBI ver 1.634
• perl-Debug-Trace ver 0.05
• perl-Digest-HMAC ver 1.03
• perl-Digest-MD5 ver 2.54
• perl-Digest-SHA ver 5.95
• perl-Digest-SHA1 ver 2.13
• perl-Socket-SSL ver 1.38
• perl-IO-Tty ver 1.12
• perl-Net-DNS ver 1.04
• perl-Net-IP ver 1.26
• perl-Net-Telnet ver 3.04
• perl-XML-Simple ver 2.22
• net-snmp ver 5.7.3
• cURL ver 7.46.0

Only SQLite is supported on AIX 7.2. MySQL and PostgreSQL is not supported on AIX 7.2.

Operating Systems which have been verified:

AIX6.1 TL8 SP6
AIX6.1 TL9 SP5
AIX7.1 TL4 SP1
AIX7.2 

Hardware Platform which have been verified:

POWER 7
POWER8 BE (HMC version: V8R8.3.0)

Issues Fixed

The following key Issues are resolved for this release and highlighted below:

• Issue #573: xcatd displays error message when performing restart. Restart of xcatd causes core dump on AIX.

• Issue #569: Update of xCAT will overwrite values in site.xcatsslversion.

Full list of Resolved Issues

Restrictions and Known Problems

• Issue #691: xCAT migration from 2.9.2 on aix71R to 2.9.3 on aix720 failed

  When updating both xCAT 2.9.2 => xCAT 2.9.3 and AIX 7.1 => AIX 7.2, use the following procedure as a reference:

  1. Update AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2 first

  2. Remove the incorrect rpm packages installed for AIX 7.1

     rpm -e perl-Expect-1.21-3 perl-Digest-SHA-5.48-3 \
     perl-IO-Stty-0.03-2 net-snmp-5.7.2-3 \
     net-snmp-devel-5.7.2-3 net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-3 \ 
     perl-version-0.82-2 perl-Crypt-SSLeay
     

  3. Install xCAT dependency packages

     ./instoss
     

  4. If you get the message ln: 0653-421 /lib/libperl.a exists. Specify -f to remove /lib/libperl.a before linking. during the update of xcat-dep, remove the sybolic link /lib/libperl.a.

     rm /lib/libperl.a
     

  5. Install xCAT

     ./instxcat